Phrase thesaurus

Dull Phrases

169 phrases and expressions related to "dull".

Phrases

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
As boring as a wet weekend in Wigan
As boring as watching paint dry
As dead as a dodo
As dead as a doornail
As dead as mutton
As dry as a bone
As dry as a pommy's bath towel
As dry as dust
As dull as ditchwater
As dumb as a box of rocks
As plain as a pikestaff
As plain as day
As plain as the nose on your face
As slow as molasses in January
As sober as a judge
At the dead of night
Back from the dead

Before the ink was dry
Better dead than red
Better off dead
Bleed someone dry
Bone dry
Boring old fart
Brain dead
Bring out your dead
Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie album)
Chivalry is not dead
Clean and sober
Cold sober
Creature of habit
Cut out the dead wood
Cut someone dead
Daily grind (the daily routine of a dull or boring job)
Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)

Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
Dead air
Dead and buried
Dead and gone
Dead cat bounce
Dead cinch
Dead duck
Dead easy
Dead end
Dead from the neck up
Dead giveaway
Dead heads
Dead heat
Dead in the water
Dead issue
Dead letter
Dead loss
Dead man walking
Dead meat

Dead men tell no tales
Dead men's shoes
Dead of night
Dead of winter
Dead on arrival
Dead on time
Dead presidents
Dead reckoning
Dead ringer
Dead to rights
Dead to the world
Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
Dead white male
Dead wood
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
Deeply boring
Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
Dim view
Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)

Down among the dead men
Drink Canada dry (Canada Dry Tonics and Mixers advertising slogan)
Drop dead
Drop dead gorgeous
Drop dead list
Drop down dead
Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
Dry humor
Dry run
Dry up
Dumb And Dumber (Jim Carrey movie)
Dumb bunny
Dumb cluck
Dumb dora
Emigrate to Canada Dry (Canada Dry Tonics and Mixers advertising slogan)
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Flogging a dead horse
Get stupid
Given up for dead

God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
Good and dead
Hang by the neck until dead
Hang him out to dry
He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
Hidden in plain sight
High and dry
Hit by the stupid stick
Home and dry
Hung out to dry
I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
I wouldn't be caught dead
I'm with stupid
In plain sight
It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
It's the economy stupid (Political slogan)
Keep it simple stupid
Keep mum, she's not so dumb (WWII slogan)
Keep your powder dry

Kicking dead whales down the beach
Kill stone dead
Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
Knock 'em dead
Left for dead
Let the dead bury the dead
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
Like being savaged by a dead sheep
Loud enough to waken the dead
Milk dry
More dead than alive
Never a dull moment
Never speak ill of the dead
Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
Not a dry eye in the house
Not a dry seat in the house
Numbered with the dead
Our dumb chums
Over my dead body

Painfully slow
Plain Jane
Plain sailing
Plain speaking
Play dead
Purl or plain
Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry
Raise the dead
Roll over and play dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
Skim milk does not come from skinny cows (Alba Dry Milk advertising slogan)
Slow burn
Slow but sure
Slow motion
Slow on the uptake
Slow slow quick quick slow
Somethin' Stupid (Frank Sinatra song)
Stone cold sober
Stupid is as stupid does

Suck someone dry
Tears Dry On Their Own (Amy Winehouse song)
Terminally stupid
The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
The King is dead, long live the King
The dim distant past
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid (Jane Austen quotation)
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
Very interesting, but stupid (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
Wanted, dead or alive
White bread
Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
You're a long time dead